Before Bo Winberg and his wife Lenah moved to Spain in the summer of 1993, he wanted to get rid of some things.
These were offered to the highest-bid members in the fan club (the fan club got the income from the sale) and I myself bought 7 10½-inches reel tapes for SEK 200 each.
It was really like buying a pig in a poke because no one really knew what was recorded on them.

Before I got them home to me, Reino Andersson arranged for the reel tapes to be copied to cassette tapes, but it would not be that easy.
The reels were recorded backwards (!) *

It finally worked out and then it turned out that there was a lot of ”goodies” to listen to.
There were, for example, complete versions of the songs ”Crazy about my baby” and ”Take a letter Maria” from the recording sessions for the album ”Back In The Race”:

Crazy 'Bout My Baby

Take A Letter Maria

Reino Andersson released the first one on the Carelia Records CD ”60-talspop från Göteborg” and both songs were added as bonus on the collection CD ”The Spotnicks – 40 vocals” on Owe Midner’s record label Solna Records.

It is extra fun to have been involved in ”saving” these two songs for the future and that only was worth the effort but there is a lot more on the tapes and below you can listen to a few examples.

The Christmas album ”In Winterland” was recorded during the summer of 1966.
Here are some backing tracks from which you can play along with:

Here Comes Santa Claus (backing track)

Parade Of Wooden Soldiers (backing track)

Silent Night (backing track)

The songs on the LP ”In The Groove” from 1967 contain a lot of good arrangements such as these two:

Do It (backing track)

I'm Gonna Make You Love Me (backing track)

Here are a few songs from the recording of the album ”Den Röda Brandbilen” (The Red Fire Car) in 1967.
It takes a lot of patience before the little boy can get ”Vicke Viréns Visa” (Vicke Virén’s Song) right and you can easily understand why Bo Winberg eventually chose to sing ”Brandchefens visa” (The Fire Chief’s Song) on the album instead of dad Olls:

Vicke Viréns Visa (rehearsals)

Brandchefens Visa (rehearsal

The album ”Back In The Race” was recorded in 1969 but was not released until the following year.
During the recording of ”Everybody’s Talking”, Bob needs a nail clipper (!)

Everybody's Talking (backing track)

Back In The Race (backing track)

Enjoy it!
Sören Alverfeldt

* Bo Hansén explains the mystery of "backwards recorded tapes":
When we archive recorded tapes in the studio world, we let the tape play or rewind to the end, and then we put that reel in its tape box.
This is what we call the band "tails out", i.e. that the top of the straps is at the bottom of the coil.
The reason for this is that there is less "copying effect" between the turns on the belt when stored in this way for a long time.
People who are not in the record studio industry or have worked at Sweden's Radio/TV do not normally know this, so they take the tape out of the box and put it on the tape recorder as you normally put on the tape roll, and in this case the tape ends up and down, and the recording is then played backwards.
Had the tape instead been placed on the tape player's "wrong side" and then rewound to the blank reel on the "right side" and then played back, then the recording would not have been reversed.
It is not more difficult than so.